Frankfurt Rödelheim station

• Homburger Bahn ( 6.6 km ) ( KBS 637 / 645.5 )
• Kronberger railway (km 0.0) ( KBS 645.3 / 645.4 )
• Bäderbahn (compound curve)

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The Bahnhof Frankfurt- Roedelheim is located on the Homburger Bahn in Frankfurt's Roedelheim. Just west of the village run railway system was at kilometer 6.6 to 99.6 m above sea level. NN built. The station also begin in a northerly direction Kronberg train and in a southerly direction the connection graph of the historic train. The station of the category 3 has interchanges to several bus lines.

• 2.1 Buildings and equipment
• 2.2 tracks

History

Old Train Station

As a replacement for the circulating since 1850 omnibus line Homburger Bahn was opened after several failed attempts in 1860, which led to the eponymous Bad Homburg Frankfurt. At this distance Roedelheim received a railway station. Originally, the distance from the Main-Weser Railway Station on the Rebstock grounds after Roedelheim; the still existing connection to the Main- Weser Railway from the box home station (now Frankfurt Westbahnhof) replaced the route until 1884. In 1874 was opened the Cronberger path which led first single track over Eschborn to Kronberg im Taunus. The old station building was shut down and relocated the station to its present location.

New railway station

1901 Homburger Bahn was extended by the distance Friedberg- Friedrichsdorf. She brought an advantage, since the purpose of increasing capacity and at the personal request of the emperor, the entire route from Frankfurt via Friedrichsdorf to Friedberg has been expanded over the years, two tracks from 1907 to 1910. At the same time, in 1905, was built by Roedelheim from a compound curve to the Taunus Railway Station to the maximum, and in 1908 released to the passenger of the 1927 another - branched off towards the main station - similar to the original way of Homburger Bahn. The routes were thus part of the historic train, an imperial connection of Wiesbaden Roedelheim to Bad Homburg and on to Bad Nauheim. Each of these routes was expanded to double track, only the branch line to Kronberg remained single track. With the incorporation to Frankfurt and the station changes its name to Frankfurt- Roedelheim. The extension of the already electrified streetcar reached 1911 Roedelheim station.

From the summer of 1954, there were on the routes to Kronberg and Bad Homburg a tight timetable clock with a clock rate of up to half an hour. Since the imperial connection was obsolete, the connection after maximum was demolished in 1963 with the construction of the A 5. Thus also the piece from the station to branch Nidda Bridge of four was back built on two tracks. The actual tracks to Hoechst were kept in the eastern tracks can be found today allotments. The connecting curve is now single track.

On September 27, 1970 both Homburger Bahn and Kronberger railway were electrified.

1974 began with the admission to the Frankfurt Transport Association ( FVV ) an S -Bahn -like forward operation from the train station to Bad Soden, Kronberg and Friedrichsdorf among the line designations R3 to R5. This laid the foundation for the beginning of 1978, under which still preserves the line numbers S3 is set to S5 running tram operation. With the S -Bahn extension then the Kronberger track was twofold. Since entering the Frankfurt transport network in 1993 are also trains the Taunus Railway to Frankfurt Central Station, stopping in Roedelheim. These go over the remaining connection to the central station ( Rebstock curve ), while the S-Bahn - apart from malfunctions - only drive via Frankfurt West. On the grounds that it was parallel transport, and the tram service was discontinued in 1978 and replaced by bus route 34.

Also at this time Roedelheim was connected to the newly built relay interlocking Wf in Frankfurt (Main ) West Bahnhof. Moreover, the two crossings of the Westerbachstraße were ( south of the platforms ) and Eschborner road closed ( north of the platforms ). As a replacement was an underpass added close to the northern transition.

Between 1972 and 1975 there was an occupational specialty in the Frankfurt area. The current coming from Paris Ost D 257 was extended beyond the Homburger and Taunusbahn to Gravenwiesbach and held in Roedelheim. Prior to the Heckeneilzug E drove 792/793 also from Frankfurt via Roedelheim and Gravenwiesbach to Cologne.

Current situation

Buildings and facilities

The old Roedelheimer station is now used as office space by a consulting firm. Also the reception building of the new Roedelheimer station has been preserved. Inside there is a small cafe. The building is, however, partly obscured by the massive platform roof of track 1. On the island platform next to it is a structurally older platform roof.

South of the station building, several smaller buildings where public toilets, a kiosk and a fruiterer are housed. One of the buildings has been demolished as part of the modernization work.

For each track, a train destination display is mounted in the form of a liquid crystal panel. They are in the northern half of the platform and replace old flip-over, three of which more were mounted near the underpass. They should be installed only after the upcoming conversions.

On track 1 was until 2008 a packing station.

Tracks

In Roedelheim 3 are obtained from former 6 tracks. The tracks 1 to 3 used to transport passengers.

• Track 1 is the main track of the railway Homburg, Kronberg train and car pools with the main platform at the reception building. This is where all of town driving lines. The platform is at a height of 96 centimeters and is 210 meters long.
• Track 2 track 3 shares with a central platform, which is also 96 inches high platform is 210 meters long, which corresponds to a long stretch of the S-Bahn. On track 2 the trains of the S -Bahn line S5 to Frankfurt South and Broad Taunusbahn hold (Line SE 15) to the central station.
• Track 3 is divided with a 2 track island platform ( central platform ), which is only accessible via the pedestrian underpass at the south end as track 2 here keep the S -Bahn lines S3 and S4 to Darmstadt and Langen.

In addition to the unused there were more tracks west of track 3, which resulted in the four-track at this time section to the junction Nidda bridge. East of track 1 there was a head track.

Remodeling

Since 2011, the station is fully accessible rebuilt. Only at the stairs and the underpass is still under construction. Originally the work should start in 2007, but actually the preparatory work began in 2008. Remodeling to include new platforms in train - height ( 96 inches ) and a modernization of the pedestrian underpass with ramps or lifts. In 2008, lopping work has been carried out on the earlier tracks and dismantled part of the disused signal technology in the form of locking signals and track locks, as well as a kiosk was demolished. In March 2009, the lease of container construction ran from the fruit sale, it was dismantled shortly thereafter. The bus stops and the Baruch Baschwitz Square in front of the reception building will be modernized.

In 2011, after three years of construction, the railroads were 1-3 put back into operation.

Connection

On the west side there is a small bus station, at the end, the Frankfurt bus lines 55 and 60 and the line 252 to Oberursel or start. In addition, the lines 34 and 72 run - separated by the railroad tracks - on the eastern Baruch Baschwitz Square. The local connection to the tram is no longer available, the tracks were to guess just by paving residues.